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Writing history: Uzbekistan’s master calligrapher is keeping the artform alive

Calligraphy is one of the most revered artforms in Islamic culture and Habibulloh Solih is one of its leading practitioners. With the title of “master calligrapher,” the Uzbek artist’s work is ...
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The world encyclopedia of calligraphy : the ultimate compendium on the art of fine writing-history, craft, technique / compiled and edited by Christopher Calderhead and Holly Cohen

Introduction -- The edged pen -- The Roman alphabet -- Greek and Cyrillic -- Hebrew -- Arabic -- Indic scripts -- Tibetan -- The East Asian brush -- Chinese -- Japanese -- Korean -- Armenian and other ...
Asia Society

Traces of the Calligrapher: Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur'an

This exhibition Islamic Calligraphy in Practice and its companion exhibition,Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, explore Islamic art’s quintessential art form: calligraphy. In the ...